Posted by alexandra_k on October 2, 2006, at 0:35:21
In reply to Re: 10 things to be proud of myself for » Lindenblüte, posted by Jost on September 30, 2006, at 23:07:11
I haven't done a 10 in a while...
1. For making more of an effort to socialise.
2. For getting better at not giving myself a hard time when I make social blunders.
3. For making a decision to persist with my t and try and meet her halfway.
4. For getting into my work today.
5. For having terrific Babble friends.
6. For being kind to people (sometimes) and for trying to work on that.
7. For my trying to be a nice person.
8. For finding the courage to change my thesis topic to something I'm interested in.
9. For finding the courage to ask a question in a seminar (a while ago now, but I'm still proud of myself).
10. For getting up at a reasonable hour this morning.
I'm sorry for my part in your upset. I know that people mostly go to chat to have a distracting chat. Sometimes people go to chat because they want to talk through problems, though, and sometimes those problems do involve things that are happening on Babble. I've had some of those discussions with Dinah at times, and people have found them to be heated, even though both Dinah and myself didn't see them that way.I was pretty unhappy about this restricted chat room. I wanted to talk about that. I appreciate that others were feeling upset about the discussion being heated. I guess that is something that is kinda nice about the 2 chat rooms. People can have different kinds of discussion in different rooms now. That is why other people moved to the other room. So people could have the distraction chat if they wanted to do that. We were discussing the new closed chat room. I didn't think anybody else was interested in having a fairly heated discussion about that.
I know you weren't there... But I assure you Bob wasn't providing me with 'Babble buddy support'. We were discussing the restricted room, and the moderator and deputies / poster divide more generally. If other people had wanted to join in what became a heated discussion about the restricted room and / or the moderator and deputies / poster divide more generally then they could have joined in. I got the impression, though, that people were upset about going to chat for distraction and finding heated argument. And that people were upset that they weren't able to divert us into having a more general 'Babble buddy support' kind of chat. So... People were having the latter kind of distracting chat in the other open room. That was my understanding anyway.
Anyway... Hope you are doing okay today.
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